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[Vactor]

Main server has been brought back up.

[Liction]

I may have accidentally crashed the server by repowering the station with the engine after it had been sitting idle for two hours without power.

[Cheedows]

Never seen a crash like that before without an explosion even. Odd. Even when Fallout went haywire on Saturday it didn't crash. 

[Liction]

funny enough it happened after I configured the SMES so something probably went funky with the SMES or the powernet.

[flame99]

Well, I know three of the SMESs have an absolutely ridiculous capacity, max input, and max output
Could that have had something to do with it?

[miauw62]

Powernets don't break because of high numbers, they break because powernets are coded awfully.

[Cheedows]

Server is up if anyone cares.

[Naverin]

I found direct wiring the 5 solar panel setups to the grid lets the station run 100% without the engine needing to even start so no risk of explosion and people can come and go as they please to a powered station.

takes all of 15 min to setup.  Just bypass the SMES's in the solar room and set to auto and done. 

[flame99]

Huh. Good to know.

On a slightly related note, I finally know why the engine kept exploding when I tried to start it: The pressure valve connecting the pipes leaving the SM chamber and the gas coolers starts out closed. Thank you, whoever plays Stark, for telling me that.

[Naverin]

Huh. Good to know.

On a slightly related note, I finally know why the engine kept exploding when I tried to start it: The pressure valve connecting the pipes leaving the SM chamber and the gas coolers starts out closed. Thank you, whoever plays Stark, for telling me that.

Ha!  That was me last night.. Happy to help.  The engine can be a beast to get happy especially with it not configured very well for a clean startup at the round beginning

[hops]

Again, I still think we should just make the SM optional or just less ridiculous.

[scrdest]

Again, I still think we should just make the SM optional or just less ridiculous.

Yeah, the thing with Engineering is think about stuff like Kitchen's dependency on Hydroponics or science's dependence on Chemist, then apply it to EVERY single person on the station and make the job extremely non-straightforward and cause a massive explosion if done wrong.

The singulo, at least, is fairly straightforward to set up - screw things in, don't screw things up, don't get hit by a laser, enjoy the power. But with the obscure and everchanging specs of the engine, the only thing a traitor Engineer has to do to trait hard is just do anything but his job for a while.

[Cheedows]

IF we're talking about traitors, the singulo gives loads more opportunities and is a lot more difficult to stop.  A traitor engineer or just a savvy tatortot could hop to the PA, hack it and put a signaller on the PA pulse wire and the lock out wire and basically have the station at their mercy since they could literally release the singulo at any time they want while engineers stare at the PA screen and cry as they are locked out. On an unrelated note:

Glloyd, any news on when we test this awesome new gamemode? Just to get the hype train going, since hype brings in more players.

[flame99]

On an unrelated note, Lmandude has been confirmed for being a ridiculously awesome Tator. I'll write up the specifics tomorrow; for now, sleep.

[hops]

Lmandude's only weakness is a kick to the balls.